Anthropocene. Citizen science as an essential tool for studying the impacts of climate change on birds

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1 Anthropocene Citizen science as an essential tool for studying the impacts of climate change on birds Benjamin Zuckerberg Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology University of Wisconsin Madison World population > 7,000,000,000 More than 40% in farmland Half of population live in cities

2 Modern Climate Change Rising temperature Altered precipitation Milder winters Earlier springs Extreme weather

3 Human Network Widespread Observers Long term

4 Dawn of Citizen Science Scientist/ Volunteer Scientist/ Volunteer Scientist Scientist Volunteer Scientist Question Data Analysis Publish

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6 Birds Numerous Identifiable Diverse

7 Birds Numerous Identifiable Diverse Culture

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9 Climate Change and Birds Range shifts Changes in migration Communities Extreme events

10 Range Shifts

11 Bird Atlases First atlases of 1960s 400 atlases Local to continental Over 68% are repeat Carolina Wren

12 Global Patterns Sources: Thomas and Lennon 1999, Brommer 2004, Hitch and Leberg 2007, Zuckerberg et al. 2009

13 Audubon s Christmas Bird Count December 25, 1900 Participants: 27 Counts: 25 Birds reported: ~19,000 Number of species: 90 J. Fishers 114 th Annual CBC Participants: 71,659 Counts: 2,480 Birds reported: 66,243,371 Number of species: 2,403

14 Winter Bird Ranges Northern boundaries Northward range shifts Howard S. Ramirez Sources: Root 1998, La Sorte and Thompson 2007

15 North American Breeding Bird Survey Began in 1966 Annual road side counts 40 km long, 50 stops Over 3,000 surveys Population trends

16 Future Climatic Suitability John Picken 300 species will lose more than half their climate space by late century Source: Langham et al. 2015

17 Future Climatic Suitability Winter Bird Species Richness Breeding Bird Species Richness Source: Distler et al. 2015

18 ~ 10,000 sites per year ~ 110,000 checklists per year

19 Southeast

20 Mid Atlantic

21 Great Lakes

22 Reshuffling of bird communities Sources: Princé and Zuckerberg 2015 Warm adapted birds Smaller bodied Southerly Increasing

23 Range Shifts More than half of observed animal range boundaries have already shown a response to modern climate change Sources: Thomas et al. 2010

24 Spring Migration

25 No birds Few birds Many birds January AMRO January

26 No birds Few birds Many birds February AMRO February

27 No birds Few birds Many birds March AMRO March

28 Earlier Spring Arrival Spring arrival Short distance migrants Sources: Zuckerberg et al. 2015

29 Earlier Nesting Dating back to 1960s Thousands of nest record cards Earlier nesting Sources: Dunn and Winkler 1999

30 Extreme Weather Events Drought pushes birds to range edges McNeal Sources: Bateman et al. 2015

31 25,000,000 observations per month

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33 Geography of Early Arrival Arrival a day earlier every degree of warming Earlier arrival at southerly latitudes More sensitive in less seasonal environments Sources: Hurlbert and Liang 2012

34 Climate Change and Birds Range shifts Changes in migration Communities Extreme events

35 Climate Change and Birds Science at broad scales Long term monitoring Scientific knowledge Invisible effort Sources: Cooper et al. 2015

36 Future of Citizen Science Mobile applications and crowdsourcing Global citizen science community Fusion of disciplines

37 Anthropocene Citizen Science Rene Prochelle, FeederWatcher, 23 years Over 200 checklists A window to nature Value Engagement Education Communication An era born of out of necessity

38 Become a citizen scientist! Citizen scientists Christmas Bird Count (Audubon) North America Breeding Bird Survey (USGS) CitizenScience.org DataONE.org CitSci.org Project FeederWatch (Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Bird Studies Canada) Lab Members (past and present) Chris Latimer, Karine Princé, Lars Pomara, Eric Ross, Ilona Naujokaitis Lewis, Lisa McCauley, John Clare, Michael Hardy, Becket Hills, Sean Sultaire, Amy Shipley, Kimberly Thompson, Larry Werner, Alyse Kreuger, Cody Lane, Colleen Miller Collaborators David Bonter, Wesley Hochachka, Daniel Fink, Frank La Sorte, Janis Dickinson, Caren Cooper, Rick Bonney, Walt Koenig, Steve Kelling, Jon Pauli, Zach Peery, Volker Radeloff, Anna Pidgeon, SILVIS lab, Phil Townsend, William Porter, Marta Jarzyna, Julio Betancourt, Courtenay Strong, Michael Notaro Funding Agencies Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, NASA, NSF, Wildlife Health Center, WI DNR, Northeast Climate Science Center, UW Madison